Digital storage technology has a reputation for being permanent. Where a lot of analogue technologies like microfilm and magnetic videotape lose fidelity with every copy and degrade (leading to the

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The three laws of robotics A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. A robot must obey the orders

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At around 7am eastern US time on October 21 2016, a company called Dyn was bought down by a massive distributed denial of service attack and the internet backbone which

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‘Those who are inspired by a model other than Nature, a mistress above all masters, are laboring in vain.’ Leonardo Da Vinci said those words more than half a millennia

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If you’ve ever used Gmail, Facebook or Dropbox, congratulations: you’re a cloud computing user. ‘The cloud’ has moved well beyond its industry buzzword beginnings and is now the operating standard

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Let’s say you’re interested in an investment property. But it’s in another city and you can’t be there to view the floorplan. Instead, you visit a website and do a

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s cybercriminals improve their methods, so too does the cybersecurity industry – the arms race between the two isn’t news. But here’s what is – one of the earliest and

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